1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,760 Speaker 1: All right, Drew Mahlland here in the WBZ newsroom, I 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:06,760 Speaker 1: am joined by a comedy legend around these parts of Boston. 3 00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:08,600 Speaker 1: Legend too, Steve Sweetey in the house. 4 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:12,160 Speaker 2: How are you, Steve, Well legends. I feel like I've 5 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:13,840 Speaker 2: passed away, but that's okay. 6 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:17,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, you're You're very much with us. And you've 7 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:21,440 Speaker 1: got a very big night here a Friday night in Gloucester. 8 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:23,919 Speaker 1: That sounds nice. That's always a fun time. A special 9 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:27,560 Speaker 1: film screening of Towny, which stars you my friend. Very cool. 10 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:30,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, first you can go on the well watch 11 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 2: then yeah, so I have this is a film of 12 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:36,240 Speaker 2: my one man's show. But and then we cut back 13 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 2: to Charles Down and Spout growing up in Charles Now. 14 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 2: It's kind of a coming of age story. And my 15 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:45,479 Speaker 2: friend Pete Fairley, who you must know. Pete won the 16 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 2: Oscar for Green Book. Yes, executive produced it. I'm very 17 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 2: proud of it. It's about the Spock growing up, you know, 18 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 2: grew up in a very unusual way. Not many towns 19 00:00:57,080 --> 00:01:01,560 Speaker 2: can produce as many bank robbers. Is Charles Down, for example, 20 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:06,320 Speaker 2: but it was. It's also about family, about Catholicism, about 21 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:09,279 Speaker 2: hippiat them it's kind of a story of my life, 22 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:11,919 Speaker 2: but it tells the story of a lot of people 23 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:16,679 Speaker 2: from my generation, and it's just it's really uh. People 24 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 2: really responded well. We did an opening at the Denham Theater. 25 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:24,040 Speaker 2: People really loved it. It's very funny and there's real 26 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:28,400 Speaker 2: poignant moments about Vietnam and my father and got it 27 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:32,680 Speaker 2: already been accepted in two festivals. So I just want 28 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:36,000 Speaker 2: local people to see it and it'll make them feel 29 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:39,040 Speaker 2: good about their hometown. It's only an hour and eight minutes. 30 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:41,600 Speaker 2: I mean, you can stay off your goddamn phones for 31 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:43,640 Speaker 2: that long, can't you? 32 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 1: Well said? Well said, and you must. I've never had 33 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 1: the pleasure of meeting you personally, but everybody I know 34 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:51,559 Speaker 1: who has says, you have stories for days. 35 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:55,840 Speaker 2: My friend, Yeah, I do, but not everybody wants to 36 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 2: hear them. You know, Yeah, I can bend the ears, 37 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 2: Yeah these stories. What happened. The way this happened was 38 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 2: Colin Quinn, you know callin Saturday Night Live and all that. Yeah, 39 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 2: he's a good friend, and I start, you know, we 40 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 2: just talked and I started telling different stories and he says, wow, 41 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:15,040 Speaker 2: you gotta make this sense to a show. So he 42 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 2: kind of pushed me and another friend, Todd Dompky. They 43 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 2: just said, turn it into a one man show, and 44 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 2: I had done one many years ago because I started 45 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 2: in the theater and I did one Works of Samuel Beckett. 46 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:29,959 Speaker 2: It really was like coming home from me doing theater 47 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 2: and doing one man show, one person show, and then 48 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 2: it turned into a movie. I hope you come and 49 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 2: see it. 50 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:40,360 Speaker 1: Very cool, Steve Sweetey, It is the Cut in Gloucester. 51 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:43,520 Speaker 1: You are doing a VIP thing at six pm if 52 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 1: people want to splurge and jump in on that. The 53 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 1: screening of Tony that was at seven thirty pm again 54 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:50,800 Speaker 1: at the Cut in Gloucester, which I'm not sure if 55 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 1: you've done any shows there, but it is a fantastic 56 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:55,000 Speaker 1: a very intimate room I have. 57 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:58,240 Speaker 2: I've done stand up shows there and you know it's 58 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 2: gonna be a really nice vibe. Uh. It's a beautiful 59 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 2: theater and the film people are going to really enjoy. 60 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 2: You know, what else do you have to do with 61 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:08,680 Speaker 2: Gloucester except drink? Right, so come on. 62 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:10,880 Speaker 1: Out and fish? Yeah? 63 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:14,400 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they say, right, it's a drinking town with 64 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:17,560 Speaker 2: a little fishing. Yeah. Great city though, Wow, I mean, 65 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:22,799 Speaker 2: you know, Gloucester and Rockport and Salem and the architecture 66 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:25,360 Speaker 2: and the history up there. It's great. So it really 67 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 2: is looking forward to going up there and doing it. 68 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:29,600 Speaker 2: I'm in Florida at the moment. I'm gonna fly in 69 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:32,160 Speaker 2: and do the show, and I'm really psyched. 70 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:33,680 Speaker 1: Very cool. Hey, what's the if you have to give 71 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:36,800 Speaker 1: me one sentence or two sentences? What's been the trick to? Uh? 72 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:37,040 Speaker 2: Not? 73 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:39,800 Speaker 1: Everybody can have a career like you have had here 74 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 1: that spans this this lot. Comedy is a tough business, 75 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 1: you know. 76 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 2: I think the trick was for me. God gave me 77 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 2: two gifts mental illness and humor. And I said, you know, 78 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,200 Speaker 2: then now they're going to pay me to be crazy. 79 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:54,960 Speaker 2: So if you have, if you're a little imbalanced, that's 80 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 2: a good start. And when you know what they said, 81 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 2: Jay Leno told me, he said, stop working dirty and 82 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 2: stuff the local stuff. So I worked dirty at which 83 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 2: I don't anymore, and did local stuff. So I broke 84 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 2: the rule. And somehow the people here have supported me 85 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 2: even though I spent eight years in la and I 86 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 2: just kept at it. Everybody's got their own gifts. I 87 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:20,440 Speaker 2: feel very blessed to have mine, and you know, just 88 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 2: keep at it. If you love it, you do it. 89 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 2: If you don't, you know, find something that will give 90 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:26,920 Speaker 2: you a steady paycheck. 91 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:29,600 Speaker 1: Good stuff, my man. This has been a pleasure. Thanks 92 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:32,360 Speaker 1: for doing it. A special film screening and. 93 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 2: The dream of my life to do your show through 94 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 2: I know. 95 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:37,600 Speaker 1: You dream to get up early and talk to me 96 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:41,480 Speaker 1: on the radio, but believe it. A special film screening 97 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 1: of Towny starring Steve Sweeney. And what else are you 98 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 1: doing on a Friday night? Right? 99 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 2: Come on, that's it. That's it. 100 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:50,279 Speaker 1: That'll do it. From the WBZ newsroom here Steve Sweeney, 101 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:51,920 Speaker 1: Thank you, sir. I'm Drew ma'holland.